Metropolis Report-
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police raided three illegal money exchange houses in different areas of the captal on Wednesday and arrested 14 people.
They also seizd currencies worth of Taka 1 crore 99 lakh 61 thousand 376, including foreign currencies of 19 countries equivalent to Taka one crore 11 lakh 19 thousand 826 from the arrestees, said Additional IGP and CID chief Mohammad Ali Mia told reporters at Malibagh CID Headquarters at the media center in Dhaka.
The arrestees are Abu Talha alias Taharat Hossain Toha, 32, Asadul Sheikh , 32, Hasanat Molla, 19, Abdul Quddus, 24, Hasnat A Chowdhury,46, Shamsul Huda Chowdhury alias Ripon, 40, Suman Mia, 30, Tapon Kumar Das, 45, Abdul Quddus, 32, Quamruzzaman Rasel, 37, Moniruzaman, 40, Newaz Biswas,30, Abul Hasnat, 40, and Shahjahan Sarker, 45.
With the help of Bangladesh Bank, a special team of CID conducted operations at five places in Dhaka City (Gulshan-1, Ring Road, Mohammadpur, Ashkona, AB Market, China Market, Uttara) and arrested a total of 14 people with a large amount of local and foreign currencies, said the CID chief.
He further said that five separate cases under the Special Powers Act were filed with four police stations against the arrestees.
